Reconstructing Gender : A Multicultural Anthology

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This anthology on gender focuses on women and men and the multiple identities that comprise the lives of individuals across gender. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent a plurality of perspectives and experiences. Eleven part introductions briey identify important issues in the general eld of study, describe the readings, and identify the central themes emerging throughout the book.

Preface

xi

About the Editor

xvii

About the Contributors

xix

General Introduction

1

(26)

PART I: SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF GENDER

27

(64)

Toward Black American Empowerment

30

(10)

Manning Marable

From Nothing, A Consciousness

40

(6)

Helen Zia

The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son

46

(11)

Martin Espada

Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today

57

(4)

Paula Gunn Allen

``J.A.P''-Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating

61

(3)

Ruth Atkin

Adrienne Rich

To Be Poor and Transgender

64

(6)

Kai Wright

White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies

70

(11)

Peggy McIntosh

Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism

81

(10)

Maxine Baca Zinn

Bonnie Thornton Dill

PART II: GENDER SOCIALIZATION

91

(69)

The Social Construction of Gender

96

(7)

Judith Lorber

Masculinity as Homophobia

103

(7)

Michael S. Kimmel

Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities

110

(17)

Michael A. Messner

Color, Hair Texture and Standards of Beauty

127

(5)

Patricia Hill Collins

The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria

132

(5)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy

137

(5)

Tommi Avicolli

Growing Up Hidden

142

(2)

Linnea Due

The Military As a Second Bar Mitzvah: Combat Service As Initiation to Zionist Masculinity

144

(9)

Danny Kaplan

Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence

153

(7)

Julie Peteet

PART III: EMBODIMENT

160

(55)

Beauty Is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body

167

(11)

Elayne A. Saltzberg

Joan C. Chrisler

``A Way Outa No Way'': Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women

178

(15)

Becky W. Thompson

Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space

193

(3)

Brent Staples

Taking It

196

(2)

Leonard Kriegel

Do You Remember Me?

198

(4)

Barbara Macdonald

I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina

202

(2)

Christy Haubegger

The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation

204

(8)

Martha A. Coventry

The Burka and the Bikini

212

(3)

Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Jacqueline Jackson

PART IV: COMMUNICATION

215

(31)

For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend

218

(1)

Pat Parker

Inside the World of Boys: Behind the Mask of Masculinity

219

(3)

William Pollack

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

222

(5)

Deborah Tannen

Real Men Don't Cry... and Other ``Uncool'' Myths

227

(5)

Phil W. Petrie

Danny

232

(6)

Nathan McCall

American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America

238

(8)

M. Annette Jaimes

Theresa Halsey

PART V: SEXUALITY

246

(57)

How Men Have (a) Sex

253

(10)

Jon Stoltenberg

The Myth of the Sexual Athlete

263

(4)

Don Sabo

Using Pornography

267

(20)

Robert Jensen

The Sex Experts versus Ann Landers

287

(2)

Barry A. Bass

Susan R. Walen

Reproductive Rights: A Disability Rights Issue

289

(6)

Marsha Saxton

The Impact of Multiple Marginalization

295

(8)

Paula C. Rust

PART VI: FAMILIES

303

(58)

The Transformation of Family Life

308

(9)

Lillian B. Rubin

Bloodmothers, Othermothers, and Women-Centered Networks

317

(7)

Patricia Hill Collins

Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood

324

(10)

Kathleen Gerson

Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response

334

(6)

Audre Lorde

I Am a Man

340

(4)

Raul E. Ybarra

Sexual Dissent and the Family: The Sharon Kowalski Case

344

(5)

Nan D. Hunter

The Relationship between Male-Male Friendship and Male-Female Marriage: American Indian and Asian Comparisons